All the headlines from our North Dakota Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 23 2017 // Several Midwest states, including Illinois, Indiana, Iowa and North Dakota, experienced transitions among insurance commissioners as 2016 folded into 2017.Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner named Jennifer Hammer to head of the...
Jan 9 2017 // Grades assigned to the insurance regulatory systems in the Midwest states of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota and Wisconsin range from A to D in a...
Jan 3 2017 // North Dakota’s new insurance commissioner, Jon Godfread, who was sworn in on Jan. 3, 2017, appointed Jeff Ubben as deputy insurance commissioner and Marcy Ost as executive assistant as part of his first official day...
Jan 3 2017 // Some Minot residents who endured the Souris River flood of 2011 are having trouble digesting the current snowpack numbers.The National Weather Service says the snowfall total in the city for November and December is...
Dec 27 2016 // Travel conditions remained hazardous as a winter storm swept across much of the northern Great Plains, with blowing and drifting snow creating near-zero visibility on some roads.The combination of freezing rain, snow and...
Dec 22 2016 // Grades assigned to the insurance regulatory systems in the Midwest states of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota and Wisconsin range from A to D in a...
Dec 21 2016 // U.S. pipeline regulators on Wednesday ordered Belle Fourche Pipeline Co. to improve leak detection, along with other actions, after a Dec. 5 incident that spilled about 4,200 barrels of oil in North Dakota.Of that total,...
Dec 19 2016 // A North Dakota mutual insurer with ties to the Farm Bureau is awaiting a decision from the state insurance commissioner as to whether it can proceed with a plan to convert to a stock insurance company.Nodak Mutual...
Dec 14 2016 // Roughly a third of the more than 3,000 barrels of oil that spilled into a North Dakota creek following a pipeline leak last week has been recovered, a local official said.An estimated 4,200 barrels of oil leaked from the...
Dec 13 2016 // Nearly two dozen victims of one of the largest hepatitis C outbreaks in recent U.S. history have settled their claims against a Minot, N.D., hospital out of court.Neither plaintiffs’ attorney Behdad Sadeghi nor...
Dec 12 2016 // A North Dakota mutual insurer with ties to the Farm Bureau is awaiting a decision from the state insurance commissioner as to whether it can proceed with a plan to convert to a stock insurance company.Nodak Mutual...
Dec 5 2016 // North Dakota ranks 47th in the country in being equipped to fight fires and it’s not helping that fewer people are signing up to be volunteer firefighters.Most fire departments in North Dakota are made up of...
Dec 2 2016 // A state task force on capital cybersecurity has submitted its recommendations to North Dakota Gov. Jack Dalrymple.Topics in the report include improving monitoring and scanning of the state’s information technology...
Nov 21 2016 // North Dakota ranks 47th in the country in being equipped to fight fires and it’s not helping that fewer people are signing up to be volunteer firefighters.Most fire departments in North Dakota are made up of...
Nov 9 2016 // Republican Jon Godfread has won the election for insurance commissioner in North Dakota. He will replace Adam Hamm who did not seek re-election.Godfread won with 64.4 percent of the vote, according to the North Dakota...
Oct 31 2016 // North Dakota has added another step to help ensure the safety of crude transported by rail with the addition of two inspectors.The inspectors have so far completed a combined 76 inspections covering more than 1,000 miles...
Oct 24 2016 // North Dakota voters will decide next month whether to legalize marijuana for medical use, by siding with opponents who say sciences is on their side or with supporters like a desperate grandmother who illegally purchased...
Oct 18 2016 // California and New Jersey had the nation’s most expensive workers’ compensation rates, while North Dakota had the lowest rates in the nation, a new report shows.A report released this week by the Oregon...
Oct 5 2016 // Chicago-based insurance brokerage, Hub International Limited (Hub), has acquired the assets of Mayport Insurance & Realty Inc. (Mayport) in North Dakota. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Based in Portland,...
Oct 5 2016 // The North Dakota Safety Council is beginning construction on a nearly 23,500-square-foot, hands-on heavy equipment safety training facility in Bismarck.The Bismarck Tribune reported that until now, companies have had to...